Sri Manakula Vinayagar School of Architecture, Puducherry: Admission, Courses, Fees, Placements

Sri Manakula Vinayagar School of Architecture or SMVA, is a budding, architectural school situated in Puducherry and was set up in the year 2017. It is an affiliated college situated in Madagadipet, Mannadipet Commune and is approved by the Council of Architecture, and therefore, the college has offered quality education in the field. The school only has one programme with the name Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch) and the approved size per year is forty students. At present, it boasts of a faculty size of fourteen members making sure that the institute btings  out a desirable student teacher ratio.

There is a list of facility available at Sri Manakula Vinayagar School of Architecture Campus. It has survey lab, material museum lab, carpentry lab, climatology lab and CAD lab is available for the students to get the first-hand experience necessary for them in order to be architects. The library is truly an information powerhouse having 513 volumes and 136 titles. As a result of convenience, the campus has provided hostels for boys and girls separately and both the hostels have provided with the gym facilities. The college canteen offer some of the foods and drinks at a fairly price to allow most students to afford to eat. Also, there is an ATM facility in the campus, to meet the financial requirements of the college and its entities.

The structured Sri Manakula Vinayagar School of Architecture, however, has only one full-time course in Architecture, Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.). This is a five-year programme intended to produce graduates conversant with architectural theories, concepts, and practical applications in the profession. According to the current rules of admissions the programme has an intake of forty students and thus the class size is small which affords the students individual contact with the faculty members. 

Admission to Sri Manakula Vinayagar School of Architecture is based on institutional norms as prescribed for the management of courses related to architectural studies in the country. Candidates seeking admission to the campus must satisfy each one of the following requirements for English & Communication Skills and a recognised aptitude for Architecture through a test such as NATA or an equivalent test. The institute also accepts scores from the Joint Entrance Examination or JEE Main Paper-II as some may prefer to call it. Among these, the entrance exams help in measuring the candidates’ abilities, for architectural studies and are part of the tests that are administered to them . The academic time-tables as also the particular admission procedures normally correspond to either the National Aptitude Test in Architecture or the Joint Entrance Exam Main, but in some cases, detailed dates may differ. 

Sri Manakula Vinayagar School of Architecture is relatively new but serves a growing mission to bring architectural education to the residents of Puducherry and the surrounding regions successfully. Its concentration with only one B.Arch programme and appropriate teaching infrastructure can offer students a fundamental form of architecture knowledge. With such physical expansion being witnessed by the institute, the college can establish itself and become a major player with regards to the architectural panorama of Puducherry and other parts of the world.